CBS News fired Scott Pelley on Tuesday, he said, jettisoning one of the network’s best-known journalists in a clash over the future of “60 Minutes,” the country’s top-rated news program. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

CBS News faced a fresh wave of turmoil after Scott Pelley, the “60 Minutes” correspondent, laced into the show’s newly hired executive producer during a staff meeting & accused Bari Weiss, the network’s editor in chief, of “murdering” the longstanding Sunday program www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/b...

Longtime migration away from parts of Rust Belt starts to reverse; housing affordability is pull for metro areas like Akron www.wsj.com/us-news/akro...

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

High gas prices, rising interest rates and stubborn inflation are keeping buyers at home and cars on the lots www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Ok, I'll add one more thing which was weird that it wasn't noted in this piece - that this lawsuit is a specific and desperate attack on a journalist to try and shut him up and get back at him for printing his own words. It's also an attack on community organizing as an idea.

The gunmen who killed three people at the San Diego Islamic Center left behind a 75-page document that preached hate, anti-Islam ideology and antisemitism and promoted violence and chaos www.latimes.com/california/s...

Two officers who defended the Capitol against a pro-Trump mob sued the Trump administration to block the creation of a $1.8 billion fund that they say will be used to reward rioters and right-wing militia groups who tried to stop Congress from certifying the election www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

The only thing growing faster than the artificial-intelligence industry may be Americans’ negative feelings about it www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

The Kansas City Streetcar’s new Riverfront extension is now open. Riders can take the 0.7-mile extension one stop farther from the River Market to the riverfront, just outside of the KC Current’s stadium and development area. www.kcur.org/housing-deve...

Royals want to activate Washington Square Park. What that means is unclear www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...

Not only does FIFA not share tournament revenue; local organizers say the federation’s infamously controlling contracts have left hosts with no plausible way to recoup expenses. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Americans have cumulatively spent about $45 billion more on gasoline & diesel during than they did during the same period a year ago. At the same time, investors in oil-and-gas companies are watching their portfolios swell. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“We don’t need an uber, we take the fucking train” - some dude outside Farina. Guys, there’s hope. They’re learning.

Consumer prices in the United States rose at the fastest rate since May 2023 last month, as sharp increases in energy costs caused by Trump’s war in the Middle East made life more expensive for American consumers. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents also dramatically slowed other federal investigations and prosecutions into an array of serious crimes www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Kansas City officials are again confronting the question of where drive-thrus should be allowed in the urban core as one business seeks to add a pick-up window in Westport. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

Surging gas prices are inflaming a longstanding economic divide in America, as households with lower incomes struggle to pay more at the pump at a moment when prices are already elevated. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/b...

The Trump administration is evicting bison herds from federal grasslands in Montana, siding with ranchers and Republican leaders over environmentalists and tribal leaders. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...

The FDA blocked studies supporting the safety of vaccines against Covid-19 & shingles. The studies, which cost millions of dollars, were conducted by scientists who worked with data firms to analyze millions of records. They found serious side effects to be very rare www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

I don’t like to be critical of local news since I used to write local news, but it’s odd to question KC’s new parking rules less than a month after they were approved. Two of the critics of *potentially* less parking live in & travel to places the Streetcar connects www.kcur.org/housing-deve...

McClatchy’s aggressive and unethical push for AI is basically asking readers not to trust their newspapers. If you a person’s byline on a story, but they didn’t write it, you’re lying. (McClatchy owns the KC Star) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...

Journalists at newspapers like The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee are refusing to let the chain use their names on summarized articles generated by a new A.I. tool. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...

This Summer, the American Water Crisis Becomes Real www.wired.com/story/the-su...

A former hotel near Westport and the Country Club Plaza is now being demolished for a future surface parking lot, but a city permit for the lot won’t last forever. www.kansascity.com/news/busines...

A $430 million-plus mixed-use master plan clinched tax incentives for not one, not two, but all three of the new high-rises proposed west of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...

The Chronicle reviewed the Texas contracts, along with those of KC, NY/NJ, Philadelphia & Seattle. Together, the contracts show that almost all of the costs for organizing the tournament fall on the cities, whose ability to collect revenue is limited www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...

Children’s Mercy Kansas City will transform its main campus with the biggest single capital investment in the hospital system's 129-year history — a $1 billion-plus patient tower on Hospital Hill. www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n...

Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future

It’s hard to imagine how much hillier Kansas City would have been if the Irish hadn’t carved our city out the rock www.kcur.org/history/2026...

The Justice Department filed a remarkable motion late Monday, written in President Trump’s recognizable online voice, explicitly linking the security breach at the White House correspondents’ dinner to the lawsuit over the president’s ballroom project. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

Gasoline prices in the United States rose on Tuesday to their highest level in four years as peace talks between the United States and Iran appeared at an impasse. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/b...

Turning U.S. Highway 71 into a parkway is still a long way away. But city planners have an idea of what it might look like if given the chance to address traffic and safety issues on the congested roadway. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

A jail healthcare provider has a lengthy history of subpar treatment, including multiple deaths & a felony conviction for abuse. Florida law says companies convicted of a felony should be barred from public contracts, but the state has not acted to & won’t say why www.propublica.org/article/armo...

Just renewed my hometown library card for the first time in like five years. Back up to four active cards (down from eight). Who needs Amazon? 📚📖

President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018, saying it was the worst deal ever. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

Re: My last post about McClatchy (it's own by a hedge fund).

Evergreen

McClatchy, which has proven repeatedly it's disinterested in local news despite owning storied papers like the Kansas City Star, is going all in on AI-generated slop. This line is particularly horrifying. Using a byline on AI-written content is essentially lying. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

yiiiikes

Connecting River Market with the Berkley Riverfront, the 0.7-mile extension will start service on May 18 after two years of construction. www.kcur.org/housing-deve...

Florida’s attorney general said on Tuesday that the state had opened a criminal investigation into ChatGPT and its parent company, OpenAI, based on a review of messages between the chatbot and the man accused of killing two people at Florida State University last year www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

It’s probably been a decade since my name was last in the KC Star. That was a byline. Now I’m “city planner Luke Ranker.” www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

Nearly 600 people have been sickened across the state, which has seen an increase in vaccine exemptions among children in recent years. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/w...

China’s economy continued to grow despite weak housing and consumer markets in large part because the government has invested heavily infrastructure like rail. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

I don’t know who he is, but there’s a @kcstreetcar.org driver who always waves at folks at the station. It’s really delightful!

Are we thinking BIG enough? If KC is going to help finance a new ball park downtown, Why not look at developing a subway, rapid bus & metro systems with State & Federal help. Let's really go for it. Let's think big.

I saw @stbikeskc.bsky.social dragged up one of Josh’s most infuriating posts (because we didn’t build it, not because Josh is infuriating). Think of how much different and better our development pattern would be if we had this:

A federal jury found that Live Nation, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, has operated as a monopoly in violation of federal and state antitrust laws, ending a closely watched trial in New York that could have far-reaching consequences in the music industry. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/a...